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GuideStone Financial Resources has created a resource to answer questions that churches and other non-profit organizations -- and their employees -- may have about how the recently passed CARES Act affects those employed in a ministry setting.

[During COVID-19] as U.S. churches shift their ministries to online gatherings to comply with state directives and governments around the world adjust social distancing measures, IMB missionaries and their national partners also pursue creative ways to share with millions around the world the hope found in Jesus Christ alone.

Despite being quarantined, members of the University Choir and Orchestra (UCO) at California Baptist University, remotely produced a virtual choir video experience for its latest release, “Sing the Story (Hallelujah Amen).”

In its spring meeting, Gateway Seminary's Board of Trustees approved a 2020-21 budget of $11,500,000 -- 2.1 percent less than in 2019-20 -- and authorized the seminary's participation in the federal Paycheck Protection Program.

LifeWay CEO Ben Mandrell cited a steep and steady decline of sales since mid-March, as well as uncertainty in the ability to host camps and events this summer as reasons for [implementing a series of budgetary freezes cutbacks and staff reductions.]

By Brandon Elrod, writer for the North American Mission BoardApril 27, 2020

As COVID-19 started becoming a global pandemic, Send Relief staff began making preparations around the world to serve communities they knew would be hit hard by the medical and economic impact of the virus.